by Suzanne Bakker | Feb 20, 2022 | non-profit management, project basics, project management, reporting, working with donors | Project management, Working for Your Mission
How often have you created a report? For your board maybe, or for a donor? And how many times have you enjoyed this task? One of the reasons why many nonprofits find reporting so tedious is because it is not always clear what the point is for themselves. And many...
by Suzanne Bakker | Jan 16, 2022 | non-profit management, project management | nonprofit management, Working for Your Mission
Before you finalize the work plan for the year, let’s look at your lessons learned of the past year. How can you make sure you use your lessons learned to do better? Let’s start with your annual work plan Look at your work plan. Which elements are the same or very...
by Suzanne Bakker | Jan 9, 2022 | annual work plan | nonprofit management, Working for Your Mission
Let’s look at what you may want to do to make sure you’re getting off to a good start of the new year. Annual work plan You may have created an annual work plan already last year, when you were preparing your annual budget and work plan for approval by the board. Is...
by Suzanne Bakker | Oct 31, 2021 | budgeting, call for proposals, expenses, finance management, income, project basics, project design, project management, setting up, starting your project, work-life mission | Finance Management, Getting Started, Project Design, Working for Your Mission
My article and my Facebook live session on your Q4 donor base actions generated many questions about how to make a fundraising plan. Making a fundraising plan for your nonprofit is a task that requires in-depth understanding of your context, work and ambitions. I...
by Suzanne Bakker | Jul 4, 2021 | building trust, call for proposals, forming partnerships, fundraising, human resource management, non-profit management, project basics, project design, project management, setting up, starting your project, team management, work-life mission, working with donors | Building Partnerships, Getting Started, Practical Labour Law & HR, Project Design, Working for Your Mission
These past weeks I have been talking a lot about fundraising. About looking for the right match in possible donors. About building relations with (potential) donors. About building know, like and trust with them. This is a long game, not a short one. It requires...
by Suzanne Bakker | May 23, 2021 | building trust, call for proposals, forming partnerships, fundraising, human resource management, non-profit management, project basics, project design, project management, setting up, starting your project, team management, work-life mission, working with donors | Building Partnerships, Getting Started, Practical Labour Law & HR, Project Design, Working for Your Mission
Some nonprofits are concerned they need to develop new ideas all the time. Regularly someone will ask me, now that I have submitted idea A to donor X, do I need to have a new idea for donor Z? In other words, can you submit one idea multiple times? Or do you need new...
